Hire Right At Your Truckstop

Hiring within any business can be a challenge. As Chairman, it is my pleasure to share a few things that are working well for us in hopes that it will help you in your efforts to recruit and retain top employees.
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Hiring within any business can be a challenge. As Chairman, it is my pleasure to share a few things that are working well for us in hopes that it will help you in your efforts to recruit and retain top employees.

At Sapp Bros., we have decided to forego many of the traditional recruiting methods and have focused on finding the right employees through referrals. Today, nearly half of our new hires—43 percent—come from referrals.

I can say from experience that if you can create an incentive program for your employees to refer quality candidates, your life will be so much easier because all of a sudden you will find yourself with much better applicants. To encourage employees to refer applicants, we offer a fairly robust bonus and pay it pretty quickly, because we want them to receive the recognition and reward. We also post a flyer with all of the open job opportunities every two weeks so our employees know what positions we’re looking to fill.

We also...

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